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COMMERCIAL TV ADS AS A VEHICLE OF OPEN BORDERS PROPAGANDA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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B.C. Lions head coach Wally Buono sports a \u201cDiversity is Strength\u201d T-shirt on the sidelines before taking on the Saskatchewan Roughriders in CFL football action in Regina on Sunday, August 13, 2017. (Mark Taylor\/CP)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you are as addicted to televised sporting events\u00a0\u00a0as I am, then you will have noticed a striking proliferation of political messaging in the guise of commercial TV ads. In a spectacle of shameless partisanship, companies like the Keg restaurant chain, Smirnoff, Tim Horton\u2019s and a myriad of others are carrying the ball for the government open borders agenda.<\/p>\n

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With minor variations, all promote a common theme:<\/p>\n

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We are a diverse nation of immigrants and must remain so.\u00a0\u00a0Diversity is our strength, and to maintain it we must be \u2018welcoming\u2019 and \u2018open\u2019 to those who aspire to join us.\u00a0\u00a0We must be \u201cinclusive\u201d in order to tap into the many talents\u00a0\u00a0that newcomers and the marginalized offer us.\u00a0\u00a0We must embrace differences and celebrate them. We are different, but we are all the same. One big happy human family.\u00a0\u00a0So let\u2019s keep our front door unlocked and wide open.\u00a0\u00a0End of sermon.<\/p>\n

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Do me a favour. Take 20 minutes and sample the you-tubes listed below to gain a flavour of what I am talking about.\u00a0\u00a0But swallow a Gravol tablet first.<\/p>\n

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Aside from a uniform message, there are other similarities.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One is their limited repertoire of clich\u00e9s, which appear to be recycled from one ad to another.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Try this experiment. Watch a batch of them in succession, then close your eyes and try to recall a set of barf bag buzzwords that are exclusive to one of them.\u00a0\u00a0Good luck.\u00a0\u00a0As your memory fades, these eight you-tubes fuse into one, like so many day time soap operas.\u00a0\u00a0They may sell different beverages, but it\u2019s all the same Kool Aid. Let\u2019s run through them.<\/p>\n

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In the first you-tube\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wWup6WArKqE<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Keg\u201d tells us that \u201cWhen we think about what it means to be Canadian, one word comes to mind. WELCOME!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then in the second video\u00a0\u00a0,\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MEKvL82Rh9I<\/a>, we\u00a0\u00a0see the characters in the Smirnoff ad\u00a0\u00a0tell us that, among other things that:<\/p>\n

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\u201cCanada is not my home, it is everyone\u2019s home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is space here for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCanadians embrace diversity, embrace differences and celebrate them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not only feeling safe but being safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The you tube began with a newscaster on a TV screen above the bar saying \u201cCanada will welcome more immigrants next year than ever before.\u201d Nice touch.\u00a0\u00a0It was all part of Smirnoff Canada\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0\u201cStay Open\u201d campaign, which the company introduced in October by stating that \u201cSmirnoff believes that inclusivity is always worth celebrating. And right now, Canada stands as a shining example of openness in a world that is increasingly feeling the opposite. So we raised a glass with real Canadian immigrants and citizens who shared why they\u2019re proud to call Canada home.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Canadian Football league launched a campaign in August on the heels of the Charlottesville incident to make the same point, the point that ours is an exceptional country,\u00a0\u00a0that Canada and what it represents is the antithesis of the bigotry and racism we see south of the border. Viewers are told that the CFL is \u201ca league as diverse as the country, a league which makes each of us different makes all of us strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0OrmB9ewVtY<\/a><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BS1jCfg7Qxc<\/a><\/p>\n

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What is apparent after viewing one of these impactful commercials is that the admen have mastered the art of story- telling.\u00a0\u00a0Consummate marketers are great story-tellers.\u00a0\u00a0They build narratives around products—or brands– that we can quickly grasp at a simple emotional level.\u00a0\u00a0Tim Horton\u2019s \u201cProud Fathers\u201d is a masterpiece in that regard.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QINv6rebyTU<\/a><\/p>\n

The ad features a Chinese father and son at a hockey rink where the father came to see his grandson play hockey. \u201cGrandad\u201d told his adult son that his grandson plays hockey better than his father did. \u201cHow would you know\u201d, the son asked. \u201cI watched you play\u201d, replied \u201cGrandad\u201d. \u201cOh, then what team did I play for?\u201d The question prompted the old man to pull a picture of his son\u2019s team with his son featured on it. Seeing this, the son became emotional, and no doubt viewers did too. It really pulls heartstrings.<\/p>\n

The message was about continuity. Not only the continuity between generations, but the continuity of Canadian tradition and culture as represented by our love of this game, which despite the upheavals of mass third world immigration, endures..The hope and expectation is that old stock Canadians will watch\u00a0\u00a0this commercial and conclude,\u00a0\u00a0\u201cSee, these people are just like you and me. They play and appreciate our national sport of hockey. And they like the brand of coffee made by Tim Horton\u2019s, which as we know is Canadians\u2019 favourite coffee.\u00a0\u00a0Part of our Canadian identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other Tim Horton\u2019s ads of this calibre are easily recalled. Remember their \u201cWelcome Home\u201d commercial aired during the 2010 Winter Olympics?\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S0pjW2ltKwI<\/a><\/p>\n

It depicts the tearful and joyous reunion between a black South African immigrant with his just arrived wife and kids at the airport. We follow the man, speaking in a mixture of Xhosa and heavily accented English, from his apartment to the store to the airport, where he embraces his family and covers their traditional clothing up in good old Canadian winter garb. And in clinching gesture, we see him hand his wife a cup of Tim Horton\u2019s. If you didn\u2019t have tears running down your cheeks by then\u00a0\u00a0you were not a real Canadian. And if you didn\u2019t get the message then you don\u2019t accept Canadian \u201cvalues\u201d, the values of family and multiculturalism, which go together like a horse and carriage.\u00a0\u00a0New Canadians are Canadians.\u00a0\u00a0They are as Canadian as maple syrup.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As Canadian as Tim Horton\u2019s. Is the picture getting clearer for you?<\/p>\n

Now that you are softened up, let\u2019s see how it is done in the United States. Try this one minute pro-immigration ad on behalf of Budweiser aired during the Super Bowl game, entitled \u201cBorn the Hard Way\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0It tells the story of a young German brewer\u2019s challenging journey from Europe to the United States, where he was met with disapproval stares and \u201cgo back home\u201d taunts, only to land in St.Louis and establish a famous and highly profitable business. The ad was released in the wake of Trump\u2019s \u201cMuslim\u201d travel ban and designed to serve as a reminder that America was built by hard working men of ambition like Adophus Busch, and that bigotry then as now is an impediment to\u00a0\u00a0the country\u2019s national success.\u00a0http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/01\/super-bowl-ad-budweiser-immigration-anheuser-busch-1201898634<\/a><\/p>\n

But if you thought these last three ads were tear-jerkers, then grab a Kleenex box before you see this one\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nPo2B-vjZ28<\/a>\u00a0, also broadcast during the Super Bowl. It is called, \u201cThe Entire Journey\u201d (5:44<\/span>\u00a0minutes). It is about a poor Central American mother who takes to the road with her young daughter to make a long arduous trek to the Promised Land in search of work, only to come face to face with a massive and imposing Trumpian wall that looks as if it is constructed with lumber. Viewers can feel their devastation. My breaking point came when the little girl pulled out a small shredded American flag from her backpack.\u00a0 Oh, God!\u00a0 But then miracle of miracles, they see a door, and they open it. Voila! They\u2019re in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Undocumented!\u00a0\u00a0But they must keep walking. Alas, along comes a good hearted American guy in a pickup truck to take them on board. The ad concludes with a bumper sticker slogan. \u201cThe Will To Succeed is Always Welcome Here.\u201d The fact that the ad was sponsored by a construction supply company \u201c84 Lumber\u201d at the cost of $10 million per minute was not lost on many viewers.\u00a0\u00a0The home construction industry relies heavily upon cheap illegal immigrant labour.<\/p>\n

Finally, I can\u2019t let you go with asking you to look at Apple\u2019s ad titled \u201cThe Human Family\u201d. It\u2019s a one minute rendition of a poem by Dr. Maya Angelou which reminds us that despite all of our differences, we\u2019re really just the same underneath it all. I believe that I first heard it during the 2010 Olympics, narrated by Morgan Freeman. The last lines are<\/p>\n

\u201cI note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike my friends, than we are unalike. We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. We are more alike my friends, than unalike.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Got it?\u00a0\u00a0So if you are stabbed by a Somali in Minneapolis, remember, people are people, more alike than unalike.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fyzI2Lu9Qcw<\/a><\/p>\n

The name of the game for pitch men is to trigger our emotions, and by doing so, override our logical reasoning. Scam artists do much the same thing. Once they are able to push your emotional buttons, they\u2019re in. Tell them that their granddaughter languishes in a Guatemalan jail and they\u2019ll send off a $2000 Moneygram to a phony lawyer no questions asked. Show them the corpse of a four year old Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach, and it is open sesame for 900,000 Syrian migrants.<\/p>\n

We are cursed with empathy which, we\u2019re told, we can never have too much of. Knee-jerk empathy unconstrained by a modicum of healthy skepticism. When we watch a grandfather and his son talking to each other in a hockey arena about fond memories, or see an immigrant re-uniting with his family at Pearson International or witness the tribulations of a migrant mother and daughter struggling to find a new life, we establish a connection.\u00a0\u00a0Once that connection is established our emotions are in the hands of the storyteller. It is like a Lassie Come Home movie. We identify with the dog, care about the outcome, and the suspense builds until the climax. Tears of sorrow become tears of joy.<\/p>\n

An advertisement that in just one minute can tell a story, makes us identify with the characters, build suspense and then deliver a moving punch line is a advertisement worth paying for.\u00a0\u00a0It is the kind of ad that is remembered. They want you to remember the message, but most importantly, they want you to remember the brand. Canadian hospitality—brought to you by The Keg. Canadian family values—- brought to you by Tim Horton\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0Openness and inclusion— brought to you by Smirnoff\u2019s.<\/p>\n

These pro-diversity ads are historically significant.\u00a0\u00a0They reflect an advanced stage of globalism, picking up steam as it hurtles toward the cliff. They are symbolic of the merger of corporations and government, which was the hallmark of classic fascism, but this time it is a fascism that is subversive of the nation state.<\/p>\n

The goal of the corporate-government consortium is total control and guaranteed profit, and the imposition of ideological conformity marching under the banner of diversity.\u00a0\u00a0The language they speak, \u201cdiversity babble\u201d, is now the lingua franca of the political class that presides over the Great Replacement in Europe and North America.\u00a0\u00a0It is a jargon that serves to obfuscate and confuse rather than clarify and enlighten. A smokescreen for the demolition of national sovereignty.<\/p>\n

The chest-thumping proud-Canadian nationalism promoted by commercials like these are at best a Kumbaya chauvinism that brags about our inability or unwillingness to protect our own national cultural heritage.\u00a0\u00a0Defeated nations traditionally wave white flags to signal surrender. In Canada we wave the maple leaf.<\/p>\n

The Canada that they want us to feel patriotic about is not the Canada of our fathers or grandfathers. It is not a bicultural nation of two founding peoples but a microcosm of the United Nations where French and Anglo-Celtic Canadians are mere fragments of a \u201cmosaic\u201d. The Canada we\u00a0\u00a0presently see at YVR or YYZ airports will soon be identical to the Canada we see in every city, town and hamlet across the country. We are no longer a nation, but a geographical entity, a destination stop where everyone is welcome, and everyone instantaneously \u201cCanadian\u201d. Drink a cup of Tim Horton\u2019s and voila, you are one of us. Play for the BC Lions or the Toronto Raptors and you have the keys to the city.<\/p>\n

These ads are surely destined to take their place in the Propaganda Hall of Fame alongside the works of Sergei Einsenstein, Leni Refenstahl and Canada\u2019s own John Grierson. Just imagine. Social engineering in the service of profits. Bernays and Goebbels would be impressed.<\/p>\n

Tim Murray<\/p>\n

December 1, 2017<\/p>\n

Attachments area<\/p>\n

Preview YouTube video The Keg Canada 150 Commercial: Canadian Words<\/a><\/p>\n

The Keg Canada 150 Commercial: Canadian Words<\/p>\n

Preview YouTube video Smirnoff: A Cheers To Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

Smirnoff: A Cheers To Canada<\/p>\n

Preview YouTube video CFL | Diversity is Strength<\/a><\/p>\n

CFL | Diversity is Strength<\/p>\n

Preview YouTube video CFL This is Our League- Full Version<\/a><\/p>\n

CFL This is Our League- Full Version<\/p>\n

Preview YouTube video proud fathers<\/a><\/p>\n

proud fathers<\/p>\n

Preview YouTube video Tim Hortons True Stories: Welcome Home<\/a><\/p>\n

Tim Hortons True Stories: Welcome Home<\/p>\n

Preview YouTube video 84 Lumber Super Bowl Commercial – The Entire Journey<\/a><\/p>\n

84 Lumber Super Bowl Commercial – The Entire Journey<\/p>\n

Preview YouTube video Apple ad spotlights diversity in time for Olympics<\/a><\/p>\n

Apple ad spotlights diversity in time for Olympics<\/p>\n

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COMMERCIAL TV ADS AS A VEHICLE OF OPEN BORDERS PROPAGANDA     B.C. Lions head coach Wally Buono sports a \u201cDiversity is Strength\u201d T-shirt on the sidelines before taking on the Saskatchewan Roughriders in CFL football action in Regina on Sunday, August 13, 2017. (Mark Taylor\/CP)   If you are as addicted to televised sporting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164,853,854,855],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}